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Thanks for the essay on Glee and the critics who call it anti-Christian [Dec. 7]. The essay illustrates the high value of such stories for all of us--and shows that apparently twisted plots and odd characters can teach us more about life, love and the world than we would ever have imagined...
...TIME's photo-essay "A Journey into the World of Autism...
...seven of them were full-time staff members. Reporters didn't have word limits. The Bay Bridge investigation was funded by outside sources (San Francisco Public Press and Spot.us). None of the sports section's 16 pages contain game scores; eight of them are filled by a Stephen King essay on the World Series. Most of the paper went to press weeks before it came out, making it a poor source for breaking news. (The front section is the one exception; its news briefs cover events only a couple of days old.) And the 15-by-22-in. pages...
...stronger over the past eight months in the wake of a sex scandal and renewed legal battles. Last month, Interior Minister Roberto Maroni demanded that Facebook disable a user page called "Killing Berlusconi" that had attracted thousands of friends and fans in just a few weeks. (See a photo-essay on Silvio Berlusconi and the politics...
...George W. Bush's 2001 No Child Left Behind education reform was its expansion of state-mandated standardized testing as means of assessing school performance. Now most students are tested each year of grade school as well. That means that by the time they graduate to college - where the essay, the experiment and the case study still rule - the reprieve from bubble-filling and time limits is a welcome one indeed...